As the practical examples throughout the book involve the use of GCP, a GCP free-tier account is required.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself. Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://static.packt-cdn.com/downloads/9781838555276_ColorImages.pdf.

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "It automatically creates one subnet per region with predefined IP ranges with the /20 mask from the 10.128.0.0/9 CIDR block."

A block of code is set as follows:

<INSTANCE_NAME>.c.<PROJECT_ID>.internal

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

resources:
- name: {{ properties["name"] }}
  type: compute.v1.instance

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

gcloud deployment-manager deployments create networking --config config.yaml

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Navigate to Network Services and then Load Balancing."